Silicon Photonics for Signal Processing of Tbit/s Serial Data Signals

Author

Oxenlowe, Leif K. ; Ji, Hua ; Galili, Michael ; Pu, Minhao ; Hu, Hao ; Mulvad, Hans Christian H ; Yvind, Kresten ; Hvam, Jørn M. ; Clausen, Anders Thomas ; Jeppesen, Palle

Author_Institution

Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

18

Issue

2

fYear

2012

Firstpage

996

Lastpage

1005

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our recent work on signal processing of terabit per second optical serial data signals using pure silicon waveguides. We employ nonlinear optical signal processing in nanoengineered silicon waveguides to perform demultiplexing and optical waveform sampling of 1.28-Tbit/s data signals as well as wavelength conversion of up to 320-Gbit/s data signals. We demonstrate that the silicon waveguides are equally useful for amplitude and phase-modulated data signals.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; demultiplexing; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; signal processing; silicon; Si; amplitude-modulated data signals; bit rate 1.28 Tbit/s; demultiplexing; nanoengineered silicon waveguides; nonlinear optical signal processing; optical serial data signals; optical waveform sampling; phase-modulated data signals; pure silicon waveguides; silicon photonics; wavelength conversion; Bit error rate; Demultiplexing; Nonlinear optics; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon; Optical fiber communication; optical fiber filters; optical switches; silicon photonics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2140093

Filename

6009162